well I guess this means, that VP will not do much more than using the old B&F stamps to rerelease their vinyl issues, pretty much the same they do with the Greensleeves catalogue these days. This is not horrible, but wont be of any help to the ones that own the original B&F records.

yeah this kinda sucks, I was looking forward to an actual revive of the label which to me meant new releases, but if Steve Barrow doesn't think its worthwhile, I would doubt I would be much interested either. my guess would be they wanted a whole bunch of work for not much in return, but that's only a guess.

If they started releasing a bunch of new, say, compilations under the B&F banner, I would want it to be Steve who was doing the compiling. Without him its pretty much a hollow shell, no disrespect meant to Dom and/or Bob, but really Steve was the heart and soul of the operation if I recall correctly and always the one with the well deserved credential as compiler of many great releases for Trojan among others.

Anyway I hope something comes of it commercially for them/you (B&F I mean), maybe pay off some bills or actually earn a little money for the principals, so all the best. I have most everything ever released on vinyl and pretty much all the cds so I don't really foresee having to buy many of what may come out of a partnership with VP, but I do think it is well worthy of being out in record store shelves (such as they exist anymore).

I am likewise crestfallen to hear that the new Blood & Fire isn't happening without Steve's involvement. My prediction is that VP will get some of the B&F back catalog into circulation again, but no new releases under the B&F name. And I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen at all.

what I think happened is that Barrow wanted to get all involved musicians and artists to get their financial share (one of the reason it originally went bust) I can imagine that VP (which is in business for 20+ something years) only pays out the copyright holders of the material or the producers..

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edgar wrote:what I think happened is that Barrow wanted to get all involved musicians and artists to get their financial share (one of the reason it originally went bust) I can imagine that VP (which is in business for 20+ something years) only pays out the copyright holders of the material or the producers..

No, that's not the case at all. Steve told me last weekend that he was successful with establishing the terms of the artists and producers contracts under the new arrangement, so good on him for that. Where things fell down were during discussions about what his new role would be.